Took him long enough.

Washington (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday denounced the “genocide” carried out by the Islamic State group against Christians, Shiites and Yazidis, as the State Department unveiled its somber annual report on religious freedom around the world.

In its comprehensive look at the situation in more than 200 countries in 2015, the State Department said non-state actors like the IS group and Boko Haram “continued to rank amongst the most egregious abusers of religious freedom in the world.”

The IS group “continued to pursue a brutal strategy of what Secretary (John) Kerry judged to constitute genocide against Yazidis, Christians, Shiites, and other vulnerable groups in the territory it controlled,” the State Department said.